Identifier: geographicaldis00seeb (find matches)
Title: The geographical distribution of the family Charadriidae, or the plovers, sandpipers, snipes, and their allies
Year: 1888 (1880s)
Authors: Seebohm, Henry, 1832-1895 Keulemans, J. G. (John Gerrard), 1842-1912, lithographer Hanhart, printer of plates Dwight, Jonathan, 1858-1929, former owner. DSI Tucker, Marcia Brady, former owner. DSI Judd & Company, printer of plates Library of Congress, former owner. DSI
Subjects: Charadriidae Shore birds
Publisher: London Manchester : H. Sotheran & Co.
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
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ution. One ofthem is moulting its primaries ; the first is an old ragged rusty feather, the second is half-grown, whilst the rest are new. So far as is known, no species of Charadriidse moults itsquills until it has assumed the plumage of the adult bird; and it is not at all uncommon tofind birds which have moulted all their feathers from the immature plumage, except theirquills, which still retain the pale tips of the first feathers. PHEGORNIS LEUCOPTERUS. POPSTERS SANDPIPER. (Plate XVIII.) Diagnosis. Phegornis corpore subtus haud fasciato. Variations. The two varieties mentioned by Latham are probably older or younger birds than the onefirst described. Synonymy. Tringa leucoptera, Gmelin, Syst. Nat. i. p. 678 (1788). Totanus leucopterus (GmeL), Vieillot, N. Diet. dHist. Nat. vi. p. 396 (1817). 1 The island in the Pacific Ocean rather more than a thousand miles due south of the Sandwich Islands,not the island of the same name in the Indian Ocean about two hundred miles south of Java.
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■■■■■■■ Hajihari imp. PHEGORNIS LEUCOPTERUS F0RSTER5 SHORT WINGED SANDPIPER. PHEGOENIS. Calidris leucopterus (GmeL), Cuvier, Blgne An. i. p. 526 (1829). Tringa pyrrhetrrea, Lichtenstein, Forsters Descr. Anim. It. Mar. Austr. p. 174 (1844). Prosobonia leucoptera (GmeL), Bonap. Compt. Rend. xxxi. p. 562 (1850). 453 Plates.—Lath. Gen. Hist. Birds, ix. pi. cliii.Habits.—Undescribed.Eggs.—Unknown. Literature. Forsters Short-winged Sandpiper, the White-winged Sandpiper of Latham, may be Specific CD.R.rn otters distinguished from its two short-winged allies by its unbarred underparts. Forsters Sandpiper is only known from the Society Islands, where it was obtained on Geographi-one of Capt. Cooks Voyages (Forsters unpublished drawings in the British Museum, tion_no. 120; Elliss ditto, no. 65). It was found on the islands of Otaheite and Eimeo. Ithas not been recorded by any recent traveller, and the only example known to exist is thatin the Leyden Museum. It has been sugge

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